gatherest

«gatherest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you gather — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you gather

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«gatherest» means «you gather», a form of «gather»: To gather is to come together in one place as a group. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou gatherest» = «you gather».

examples

• When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «gather», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gatherest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.